Instead of blaming God for all the bad stuff and suffering....................?

I agree with you. We've taken so many of God's blessings for granted. We have strayed so far from His word (as a country). God is just, so we get what we deserve. We should be more thankful, we all have so much.

I used to blame God, but that's when I was only a few months into my salvation and I didn't understand why I was going through so much turmoil, since I just became a Christian and brand new at it for that matter. The way I see it now, pain and suffering is actually healthy for your faith in Jesus because it helps bring you closer to the Lord.

Beloved, think of it not strange concerning

the fiery trials which is to try you,

as though some strange thing happened unto

you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers

of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall

be revealed, ye may be glad also with

exceeding joy.

1 Peter 4:12-13

If you believe in God, how can you thank him for blessings without also blaming him for suffering? If God is truly in control, he realistically deserves thanks and blame. As for whether God deserves more thanks or more blame, I guess that's debatable and highly dependent on your experiences in life. But you can't pretend God is all good when there are so many people in the world who suffer through no fault of their own. I don't how much you believe in free-will, starving and abused children and other such people whose crime is being born do not deserve such misfortune.

The God of the recent/previous testomony is a marginally grotesque character. yet you're incorrect a pair of few issues. - The devil as a character is presented because of the fact the Antagonist, so the features you gave do no longer probably experience his standard description contained in the bible. - the assumption of hell in Christianity existed previously Dante wrote the divine comedy. Dante had is very own concept of what hell might desire to be, yet hell already existed contained in the recent testomony.

I think your assessment is true. Remember the time Jesus healed 10 lepers? Nine were Jewish and one a Samaritan. And only the Samaritan returned and gave thanks after he was healed.

And remember that anytime we say something like this and pointing our finger. One is pointing at the other and four are pointing at ourselves. God made it that way so we would be less harsh on others so that others would be less harsh on us.

But you know from birth, to life, to death. We do not have to worry about how to use our brains. How to talk. How to eat. How our hearts beat. Our lungs breathe. Our senses work. We live in an orchestration of life that is symphonic and harmonic in the rhythm and music of life. It is not discordant in the physical way. Our physical world operates in astonishingly rhythmic cadence.

For instance you are reading my words and can understand it or not. Still you have the ability to read and comprehend all this.

I am grateful for what I have had in the past and what I have now and in the future. My family, friends, jobs, schooling. etc etc etc. And most of all I am glad I have a right relationship with God through Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior. And I gave thanks to him daily for providing my needs..

Thanks so much for allowing me to express my thanks to him. God bless.

Later.

yyyyyep! Pointing the finger takes the responsibility off of people to do anything about it. If we would realize that a lot of things we blame God for is our fault, then we could do whatever is needed to start doing something about them. But as long as we are finger pointing, all things will continue just as they have from the beginning of creation just like the bible says.

I don't blame God for anything. What happens here on earth, happens. May be due to our own faults or an act of nature. But blaming God? No, I don't think so.

Uh...well of course you are not in boots of such people who blame God. wahhh babies and ungratful brats? Hmm, dont justify what you have not experienced(suffer).

Have a good day.

really, does someone really blame their god for the suffering? It has always been my belief that you blamed the person who was suffering for all the bad in his life, and gave your god the credit for all the good things.

We should be thankful for our blessings...yes, but learn from and help those that are suffering too.

Peace, Love, and Blessings

Greenwood